It actually looks like a real life 1930's bomber from the UK or Germany. Unfortunately it also flies like the worst of that period. Way too heavy for its power. You have to delete all the fuel in the wings just to be able to take off
Sorry, I love the idea, but I can't give an upvote before you post a new version that can actually take off under own power
Note: I found that with full flaps, the aircraft is prone to stalling. I had to add several weights in the first 4 fuselage segments to be able to take off and land under flaps. Consider adding an extra fuselage segment in front of the wings on your next version
Looks the part, flies like a 600mph dream. Love it.
Ps, for more comfort landing, in XML modder replace 'Roll*0.5' in outer wing panels/ailerons with 'Roll*0.5+clamp(VTOL,0,1)' left and 'Roll*0.5-clamp(VTOL,0,1)' right. Then you can use the VTOL slider up as speed brake.
@LonelySea22 I actually tried 'full' wing warping by giving every segment of the wing its own rotator and move it 2 degrees up or down. Unfortunately I ran into too many problems with stability and ended up with wing flapping instead. This was the best doable solution.
But yea, I tried to incorporate as many historically accurate details as possible. So the wings move as a whole and the steering column is a prewar French 'Cloche' type
Eagerly awaiting an amphibian and a 2/3 person version. I mean it61950's and it's Italian. Why would you buy such a plane if not to take your special someone to a picknick on a remote island?
Waauw, I love it. The details in the cockpit, the overall 1950's look.... Plus, it flies surprisingly well. The only thing I would have wished for would be some flight instructions or a little manual in the description above. It took me several attempts to find out how to operate the flaps and the pontons, and I only found out about the air brakes on my fourth or fifth landing.
Update: I found that it is really easy for the parachutes of the frogmen to be caught on the fuselage. I also found it helps when you go into the settings for the parachutes and set the Trim value on the parachutes 0.09 point higher (so (Trim>0.5) for Dirk Pritt becomes (Trim > 0.59),.(Trim >0.9) For the 3 frogmen becomes (Trim>0.99) etc, Also, the cameras on the divers work better when you place them upright. Sorry for not noticing this earlier. Guess nothing beats real thorough testing
@Convex Blame it on the books. All I had to go by was the description that 'all NUMA vehicles were painted white and turquoise' The orange just came to be after I used it on 'warning' panels.and decided it looked good enough to use some more.
Warning: In case you missed it. This plane has the Trim and VTOL sliders switched. You operate the flaps by sliding the left 'Trim' slider down, you trim the plane with the right side VTOL slider.
Once you got used to that, or once you (like me) switched the controls back, the plane flies like a breeze.
Love this car. Love the details
.My only complaint would be that I have trouble with the start switch and the gear switch hidden behind the steering wheel.
@StraitAircraft you can always go with the French Salmson 5-cylinder radial engine or use the covered 4-cylinder inline engine of the first German versions. I can post the plans on Discord, but you can just as easy get them from Richard Ferriere's plan repository http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/3vues.html
@EagleMan010 hey, just try opening the doors in plain light and pushing the trim slider forward. Preferably set the view to 'Dirk Pritt' or 'Al Giordano' beforehand
1910's: Hanriot monoplane (although I'm calling dibs on that one. Please wait making any plans until the end of the month. I might have made that one by then myself)
Early 1929's:.
Blackburn Kangaroo
De Havilland DH.16 (aka a DH.10 with a passenger cabin)
AEG biplane with passenger cabin)
Hansa Brandenburg HB.29/34 floatplane post-war SAR version
Mid-late 1920's
Douglas mailplane or Boeing 40A
Lockheed Air Express (aka a Lockheed Vega with open cockpit behind the wing
Every Fokker passenger plane of that period
Ps, you up for a challenge? You have ten days to make a version at half the size (13m/42 ft span) and enter it in https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/n10802/Early-Aviation-Challenge
If it flies as good as this one, you're a serious contender
It is twice as big as the original and the fuselage is a bit more rounded than the pictures show, but apart of that it's a nice flyer and worth downloading.
The seaplane. We definitely need more seaplanes in here.
Ok. I am by nature biased in favor of civilian planes since I prefer sticking a tricky landing over shooting down a spawn anytime. But other than that.... Definitely do the seaplane
@Boeing727200F Still, even if the game is not fair , or stacked against you... don't let this keep you from making a real fabulous heli and posting it here. I know I will. So what if we are better at building stuff then at promoting and playing the upvotes game... as long as we have a good time building the best stuff we can come up with, just a nod is all the acknowledgement we need.
Of course, I WILL post the best livery known to mankind. Already working on it.
Can you make a civil version? This plane just looks like a Lockheed Constellation on steroids. Something people in the late 1940's would dream the future would hold
@Tiberius57 I could explain how I add flaps, but this would just blow up the comments area here. So hit me up on the 'simpleplanes' Discord channel. My user name there is the same as here.
Looks like the real thing and flies almost all the basic training scenarios just as real as the old Microsoft Flight Sim. Congratulations. Eagerly awaiting the version with instruments, doors and luggage locker in the back
Took a little getting used to flaps and trim being on the wrong hand, but in the end, the movable wing nose did it for me. This aircraft is a showcase of what Simpleplanes really can do
@AircraftLover754 I haven't flown around with your helicopter enough to find anything I would fix immediately. But from the top of my head: the thing has trouble gaining altitude, so increase tht power of the wingtip jets, use XML editor to kill the drag of the rotor blades, both the actual wings and the fuselage sleeves and finally, consider adding a wing control surface to add as a rotor blade tilt mechanism. May be set it to the VTOL slider...
IMPORTANT: plane is extremely tail heavy. Before flying, add 600 pounds of dead weight to the two front most fuselage segments, otherwise the plane will not even float but flip over backwards as soon as you put it on the water.
Hope you don't mind me being honest, but here's my assessment:
Plus side: Great looks, fantastic paint job, flies really well.
Minus side: It's supposed to be a bomber, but no bomb bay, no bombs. Three turrets, but all of them fixed and no turret views. Also 329 parts, but no cockpit? And still the simple blocky wing? I am not asking for vision-guided turrets like I used for my monitor plane, or trust-reversal on the engines, but just do the same thing to the wings and horizontal stabilizers like you did to the vertical ones.
@WinsWings you want to see something really parawing? Then delete the two inner piston/pull ropes. The plane will still fly but with a sloppy wing that curves down when standing and curves up when flying... And wobbles every time you make a turn. But it's a site to see...
@WinsWings I know it closed like two years ago, but you got another entry just last week, and I bet you will still get more. So I decided: Well, why not.
Update: the F8F was indeed posted 2 years ago, but it showed up in my jet stream just last week.
It actually looks like a real life 1930's bomber from the UK or Germany. Unfortunately it also flies like the worst of that period. Way too heavy for its power. You have to delete all the fuel in the wings just to be able to take off
Sorry, I love the idea, but I can't give an upvote before you post a new version that can actually take off under own power
Note: I found that with full flaps, the aircraft is prone to stalling. I had to add several weights in the first 4 fuselage segments to be able to take off and land under flaps. Consider adding an extra fuselage segment in front of the wings on your next version
Nice extra. I'm already trying to drop a couple of paratroopers on it.
+1Nice well-thought-out concept with lots of flair. Consider reworking it with everything you learned in the last 6 months. Would be quite a flyer
Really a blast to realize how far we have come since then....
And really a blast to try to lane an aircraft with neither flaps nor air brakes.
Looks the part, flies like a 600mph dream. Love it.
Ps, for more comfort landing, in XML modder replace 'Roll*0.5' in outer wing panels/ailerons with 'Roll*0.5+clamp(VTOL,0,1)' left and 'Roll*0.5-clamp(VTOL,0,1)' right. Then you can use the VTOL slider up as speed brake.
@LonelySea22 I actually tried 'full' wing warping by giving every segment of the wing its own rotator and move it 2 degrees up or down. Unfortunately I ran into too many problems with stability and ended up with wing flapping instead. This was the best doable solution.
But yea, I tried to incorporate as many historically accurate details as possible. So the wings move as a whole and the steering column is a prewar French 'Cloche' type
+2Eagerly awaiting an amphibian and a 2/3 person version. I mean it61950's and it's Italian. Why would you buy such a plane if not to take your special someone to a picknick on a remote island?
+1Waauw, I love it. The details in the cockpit, the overall 1950's look.... Plus, it flies surprisingly well. The only thing I would have wished for would be some flight instructions or a little manual in the description above. It took me several attempts to find out how to operate the flaps and the pontons, and I only found out about the air brakes on my fourth or fifth landing.
+1Update: I found that it is really easy for the parachutes of the frogmen to be caught on the fuselage. I also found it helps when you go into the settings for the parachutes and set the Trim value on the parachutes 0.09 point higher (so (Trim>0.5) for Dirk Pritt becomes (Trim > 0.59),.(Trim >0.9) For the 3 frogmen becomes (Trim>0.99) etc, Also, the cameras on the divers work better when you place them upright. Sorry for not noticing this earlier. Guess nothing beats real thorough testing
Still have to find out how you get the right hand to operate the joystick without it swayong back and forth. I never got that to work on my projects
@Convex Blame it on the books. All I had to go by was the description that 'all NUMA vehicles were painted white and turquoise' The orange just came to be after I used it on 'warning' panels.and decided it looked good enough to use some more.
Warning: In case you missed it. This plane has the Trim and VTOL sliders switched. You operate the flaps by sliding the left 'Trim' slider down, you trim the plane with the right side VTOL slider.
Once you got used to that, or once you (like me) switched the controls back, the plane flies like a breeze.
+1Love this car. Love the details
+1.My only complaint would be that I have trouble with the start switch and the gear switch hidden behind the steering wheel.
@StraitAircraft you can always go with the French Salmson 5-cylinder radial engine or use the covered 4-cylinder inline engine of the first German versions. I can post the plans on Discord, but you can just as easy get them from Richard Ferriere's plan repository http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/3vues.html
@EagleMan010 hey, just try opening the doors in plain light and pushing the trim slider forward. Preferably set the view to 'Dirk Pritt' or 'Al Giordano' beforehand
+1@StraitAircraft can you hold off on the Hanriot? I was originally planning to make one for the Early Aviation Challenge.
+11910's: Hanriot monoplane (although I'm calling dibs on that one. Please wait making any plans until the end of the month. I might have made that one by then myself)
Early 1929's:.
Blackburn Kangaroo
De Havilland DH.16 (aka a DH.10 with a passenger cabin)
AEG biplane with passenger cabin)
Hansa Brandenburg HB.29/34 floatplane post-war SAR version
Mid-late 1920's
Douglas mailplane or Boeing 40A
Lockheed Air Express (aka a Lockheed Vega with open cockpit behind the wing
Every Fokker passenger plane of that period
Ps, you up for a challenge? You have ten days to make a version at half the size (13m/42 ft span) and enter it in https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/n10802/Early-Aviation-Challenge
If it flies as good as this one, you're a serious contender
It is twice as big as the original and the fuselage is a bit more rounded than the pictures show, but apart of that it's a nice flyer and worth downloading.
Also.... Congratulations on your first 1000.
+1The seaplane. We definitely need more seaplanes in here.
Ok. I am by nature biased in favor of civilian planes since I prefer sticking a tricky landing over shooting down a spawn anytime. But other than that.... Definitely do the seaplane
+1Just a couple of extra colored parts and just a couple of labels and directly such a cool.effect. I would vote this 10/10 as well.
+1@Boeing727200F Still, even if the game is not fair , or stacked against you... don't let this keep you from making a real fabulous heli and posting it here. I know I will. So what if we are better at building stuff then at promoting and playing the upvotes game... as long as we have a good time building the best stuff we can come up with, just a nod is all the acknowledgement we need.
Of course, I WILL post the best livery known to mankind. Already working on it.
+1A great plane to just fly around in. Congratulations
Always one of my favorites.
+1Got to keep on trying then. Half of the time I can't even get her to take off
+1Sh't, you did it
Can you make a civil version? This plane just looks like a Lockheed Constellation on steroids. Something people in the late 1940's would dream the future would hold
@XProAerospaceAircrafts Interesting.
@Tiberius57 I could explain how I add flaps, but this would just blow up the comments area here. So hit me up on the 'simpleplanes' Discord channel. My user name there is the same as here.
Nice details, although I would have wished for some flaps or landing aids.
My suggestion for a follow-up: An AWACS variant with a rotating disc on top, arrester hook and folding wings
Next version, add an arrester hook for carrier landings
Looks like the real thing and flies almost all the basic training scenarios just as real as the old Microsoft Flight Sim. Congratulations. Eagerly awaiting the version with instruments, doors and luggage locker in the back
+1Took a little getting used to flaps and trim being on the wrong hand, but in the end, the movable wing nose did it for me. This aircraft is a showcase of what Simpleplanes really can do
+3@USAMustang nope, there isn't, other than a few fixes on the flaps and landing gear. I hope I did give you credit enough.
The wheels need to be turned around for the plane to rest in its nose wheel instead of its tail. Otherwise it's a nice repair job
@AircraftLover754 I haven't flown around with your helicopter enough to find anything I would fix immediately. But from the top of my head: the thing has trouble gaining altitude, so increase tht power of the wingtip jets, use XML editor to kill the drag of the rotor blades, both the actual wings and the fuselage sleeves and finally, consider adding a wing control surface to add as a rotor blade tilt mechanism. May be set it to the VTOL slider...
+2Thanks for reinventing the wheel, or in this case the rotor
+2Next version, add an arrester hook, please
Looks pretty good, flies pretty well. Not bad for a first airplane.
So many cool things and extras going on.... Takes hours to explore them all.. congratulations
IMPORTANT: plane is extremely tail heavy. Before flying, add 600 pounds of dead weight to the two front most fuselage segments, otherwise the plane will not even float but flip over backwards as soon as you put it on the water.
Maybach? Want to build a Zeppelin around it?
Hope you don't mind me being honest, but here's my assessment:
Plus side: Great looks, fantastic paint job, flies really well.
Minus side: It's supposed to be a bomber, but no bomb bay, no bombs. Three turrets, but all of them fixed and no turret views. Also 329 parts, but no cockpit? And still the simple blocky wing? I am not asking for vision-guided turrets like I used for my monitor plane, or trust-reversal on the engines, but just do the same thing to the wings and horizontal stabilizers like you did to the vertical ones.
@StopBreathingMyAir codos for using cubes them. I'm curious to see what it looks like finished
That's 1381 cubes stacked together?
@WinsWings you want to see something really parawing? Then delete the two inner piston/pull ropes. The plane will still fly but with a sloppy wing that curves down when standing and curves up when flying... And wobbles every time you make a turn. But it's a site to see...
+1Waaa??? No Belgium?
+1Love the plane: it looks the part and flies like a dream. Immediately downloaded your 70 part Mig and spawning it left and right for dogfighting
+2@WinsWings I know it closed like two years ago, but you got another entry just last week, and I bet you will still get more. So I decided: Well, why not.
Update: the F8F was indeed posted 2 years ago, but it showed up in my jet stream just last week.
+2